Maxine Waters

Maxine Waters (15 August 1938-) was a member of the US House of Representatives (D-CA 29) from 1991 to 1993, succeeding Augustus Hawkins and preceding Henry Waxman; from CA 35 from 1993 to 2013, succeeding Jerry Lewis and preceding Gloria Negrete McLeod; and from CA 43 from 2013, succeeding Joe Baca.

Biography
Maxine Waters was born in St. Louis, Missouri in 1938, and her family moved to Los Angeles, California in 1961. She became an assistant teacher in Watts in 1966, and she worked as a deputy to a city councilman before being elected to the State Assembly in 1976. In 1990, she was elected to the US House of Representatives, and she was a member of the Progressive Democrats. She was later accused of corruption, but these charges were dropped in 2012.